[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3530 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3530

      To provide for the use of Federal facilities to demonstrate 
                      environmental technologies.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 1993

  Mr. Swett introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
              Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

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                                 A BILL


 
      To provide for the use of Federal facilities to demonstrate 
                      environmental technologies.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Environmental Technology 
Demonstration Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds the following:
            (1) The development and deployment of environmental 
        technologies can enhance the economic competitiveness and the 
        environmental security of the United States.
            (2) The Federal Government has facilities which can assist 
        and catalyze efforts of industry in developing and deploying 
        new environmental technologies.

SEC. 3. USE OF FEDERAL FACILITIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY 
              DEMONSTRATION.

    (a) Establishment.--The Administrator of the Environmental 
Protection Agency shall establish a program to demonstrate the 
performance of environmental technologies at Federal laboratories and 
other Federal facilities.
    (b) Qualifying Technology Demonstration Projects.--Technologies 
that qualify for demonstration under such program include--
            (1) environmental technologies that can be applied to a 
        major pollution control or remediation need, as determined by 
        the Administrator, at a Federal laboratory or other Federal 
        facility;
            (2) environmental technologies the development of which 
        would be significantly advanced by unique facilities or 
        capabilities of a Federal laboratory or other Federal facility; 
        and
            (3) other environmental technologies that the 
        Administration considers to have significant potential as an 
        environmental technology that will contribute to sustainable 
        economic growth.
    (c) Administration.--As part of the program established under this 
section, the Administrator--
            (1) may enter into cooperative agreements with other 
        Federal departments and agencies for the purpose of 
        demonstrating the performance of environmental technologies;
            (2) may enter into contracts and cooperative agreements for 
        such purpose with organizations selected under paragraph (7);
            (3) except as provided in paragraph (4), may not provide 
        Federal resources under a cooperative agreement referred to in 
        paragraphs (1) and (2) in an amount that exceeds one-half of 
        the total cost of carrying out services and activities under 
        the agreement;
            (4) may make special provisions for small businesses, 
        including the provision of Federal resources under a 
        cooperative agreement entered into with a small business under 
        paragraph (1) or (2) in an amount that exceeds one-half of the 
        total cost of carrying out services and activities under the 
        agreement;
            (5) shall establish procedures to solicit and accept 
        applications for environmental technologies for demonstration 
        under this program;
            (6) shall, in consultation and cooperation with other 
        Federal agencies, make available information about the 
        facilities and expertise available at Federal laboratories that 
        would be valuable to the demonstration of environmental 
        technologies and about sites at Federal laboratories or other 
        Federal facilities potentially available for testing 
        environmental technologies, characterized by specific site 
        characteristics, including site geology and site contaminants 
        where appropriate;
            (7) shall establish procedures for the merit-based review 
        of all applications for demonstration projects under this 
        program through a process that includes representatives of 
        industry and United States nonprofit organizations and select 
        organizations to carry out such projects based upon such 
        procedures;
            (8) shall document the performance and cost of 
        characteristics of the environmental technology demonstrated; 
        and
            (9) shall list and disseminate nonproprietary information 
        regarding the performance and cost characteristics of the 
        environmental technologies demonstrated pursuant to this Act.
    (d) Qualifying Organizations.--Entities eligible to carry out a 
demonstration project as part of the program established under 
subsection (a) are United States companies (including small 
businesses), United States nonprofit organizations, United States 
institutions of higher education, and other organizations that the 
Administrator considers appropriate.
    (e) Program Evaluation and Reporting.--The Administrator shall, in 
cooperation with other Federal agencies and in consultation with the 
United States companies and United States nonprofit organizations, 
annually submit to the Congress a report that evaluates the performance 
of the program, including a statement of--
            (1) the number of environmental technologies tested and the 
        type of problems addressed;
            (2) the number of environmental technologies demonstrated 
        in the program that have since become commercially viable and 
        their estimated impact; and
            (3) the Federal and non-Federal financial resources 
        committed to the program.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

    For the purposes of this Act:
            (1) The term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of 
        the Environmental Protection Agency.
            (2) The term ``environmental technology'' means--
                    (A) a technology that is primarily intended to 
                improve the quality of the environment through 
                pollution reduction or remediation;
                    (B) a product, manufacturing process, or service 
                that is capable of cost-effectively replacing the 
                functions of an existing product, process, or service, 
                and as compared with the product, process, or service 
                it replaces, significantly reducing overall pollution 
                or significantly improving the efficiency of energy or 
                materials use; or
                    (C) a technology within the meaning of 
                subparagraphs (A) and (B).
            (3) The term ``Federal laboratory'' means a Government-
        owned, Government-operated laboratory, or a Government-owned, 
        contractor-operated laboratory.

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